F# Spanish on Vihuela

F# Spanish runs 7 notes to the octave. Below it is mapped onto this instrument's A–D–G–B–E fretboard with every F# marked, because what a player needs mid-number is not the pattern but where the root is when the harmony moves under it.

Fiery and exotic — the b2 presses against the root while the major 3rd keeps it from sounding plainly minor. Flamenco heat with a Middle-Eastern edge: dramatic, urgent, and passionate.

Heard in: Flamenco and Spanish classical guitar, klezmer and "Hava Nagila", Arabic and Jewish liturgical music, metal riffs, and the V chord of harmonic minor.

The armonía is not a soloing section, so a scale here is diagnostic rather than melodic: it is how a player finds which tones a grip is actually putting in the air on a neck whose octaves do not run in order.

Take it slowly against the playback until the geometry stops being geometry, then put it under a number in F# and let the written line pick its own notes out of it.